More local attempts to limit women’s access to contraception have also been seen recently in states such as Ohio, where the state legislature proposed House Bill 351 to prohibit the use of drugs that prevent implantation, including IUDs.Without insurance. IUDs can cost upward of $1,000, making them a largely inaccessible form of birth control the uninsured or for women who’s insurance will no longer have to cover contraception. A2012 studyfound that when IUDs are made available at no cost, many women opted to use them instead of or in addition to other forms of contraception.

For individuals in need of access to reproductive health care in New York City, various clinics and hospitals are available to provide a range of services and resources. For more information, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has a comprehensive list or call 311 and ask for the Women’s Healthline which offers information and referrals for services.

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Hobby Lobby covers something like 16 different kinds of contraceptives, there are 4 that they don’t cover, which are the ones that can cause an abortion, the one that prevents implantation, the IUD, and another one that I can’t think of. I feel like people are attacking Hobby Lobby and giving information that is not correct. Hobby Lobby operates in America, so mentioning women in impoverished countries makes your article sound silly to me.

Three out of four of the proscribed birth control methods’ modes of action have nothing to do with preventing implantation. And preventing implantation is not — scientifically — an abortion. If it were, then a large percentage of monthly menstrual cycles would be considered abortions. You can’t have an abortion unless you have a pregnancy first. And a woman is not pregnant if the egg has not implanted.

The fourth method (IUD) is not designed to prevent implantation, but about 1% of the time it, theoretically, does so. Denying women affordable access to IUDs is denying a certain percentage of people who can’t use birth control pills a method that will work for them without deleterious effects.

Overall, the idea that these medicines are abortifacients is not based on science — it is based on a belief that an egg does not have to implant in order for there to be a pregnancy. And the scientific evidence shows that three out of four of these bc methods do not prevent implantation and the fourth does so 1% of the time — less often than via menstruation.

The article above expresses concern for women in poverty who need access to affordable birth control to space their babies to when they want them.

It doesn’t address how women who are dealing with rape will now be denied access to affordable Plan B types of medicines. Nor does it address how lessening access to affordable birth control of all types will increase the amount of unwanted pregnancies and therefor the amount of actual abortions.